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All poets invited to compete in a weekly poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a brief poetry open mike and (usually) a short set by a[...]

Brian Gilmore‘s latest collection We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters has been nominated for NAACP Image Award. Gilmore is a poet, writer, public interest attorney, and columnist with the Progressive Media Project. He is a Cave Canem[...]

Bill Haney will sign copies of his latest book, What They Were Thinking: Reflections on Michigan Difference Makers. The book provides insights into eighteen notable Michigan men and women who had a lasting impact, including novelist Elmore “Dutch”[...]

Reif Larsen reads from his latest novel, I Am Radar, which draws on the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history, and performance art. Larsen’s first novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, was a New York Times bestseller, was short-listed for[...]

Author Richard Adler is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, the author of several articles on baseball, and an Associate Professor of Microbiology at U-M, and author of a 2014 biography of U-M’s Victor Vaughan.[...]

Cat Warren, author of What The Dog Knows is a university professor and former journalist with an admittedly odd hobby: She and her German shepherd have spent the last seven years searching for the dead. Solo[...]

The second year of the Zell Fellows Reading Series continues , featuring fresh writing from the third year fellows in the U-M Helen Zell Writers’ Program, program alumni, and special guests.  March’s theme is “Sports.”[...]

Each term, Semester in Detroit and the U-M Detroit Center partner to organize community classroom events that are free and open to the public.  Detroit community members join together with U-M students, faculty and staff[...]

Rachel Hartman‘s new book, Shadow Scale, is forthcoming from Random House. As a child, Hartman played cello, lip-synched Mozart operas with her sisters, and fostered the deep love of music that inspired much of her[...]

Reading by local poet Joseph Chapman, whose poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Collagist, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. The program begins with open mike readings.

Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign[...]

Talk by the Oxford based scholar-translator Rosamund Bartlett, author of an acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina. Bring a bag lunch, if you like.  Room 1636.  

“My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave and Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems”

Poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek will be the RC’s 2015 Artist in Residence, March 19-21, 2015. He will also be keynote speaker at the second annual Voices of the Middle West conference, at the RC[...]

Lecture by this graphic designer, author, filmmaker, and farmer who left a successful design career in New York to return to his native Zimbabwe and open the country’s first school of graphic design and new[...]

U-M English professor and renowned poet Mattawa and highly acclaimed Latino poet Espada discuss Espada’s work. In conjunction with Espada’s reading on Mar. 17.

Readings by young poets battling for a spot at the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam finals on Apr. 2. Other semifinals are held at Pioneer High School (7 p.m., Mar. 20) and Community High School[...]

Acclaimed authors and poets Matt Bell, Laura Kasischke, Caitlin Horrocks, C.J. Hribal, Alissa Nutting, Anne Valente, and Marcus Wicker—all of whom will be featured on panels at the Voices of the Middle West fest on Saturday, March 21, on[...]

Readings by young poets battling for a spot at the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam finals on Apr. 2. Another semi-final held at Community High School (7 p.m., Mar. 27).  

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writer Denise Dooley and poet Kat Finch.

Midwestern author Stuart Dybek will be keynote speaker at the second annual Voices of the Middle West festival on Saturday, March 21, 2015, at the University of Michigan Residential College, 721 E. University Ave. in[...]

Aunt Agatha’s co-owner Robin Agnew hosts a panel discussion with 3 mystery writers on their own careers and latest works and on the nature of mystery writing. Cleveland history teacher Sam Thomas writes historical mysteries[...]

This Toronto writer reads from The Stolen Ones, his new novel in his Stevens and Windermere series about the death of a sheriff’s deputy and the mysterious woman found sitting by the body holding the[...]

RC drama instructor Kate Mendeloff’s students direct and perform 8 short plays by Ives, an acclaimed contemporary American playwright best known for his one-act comedies.  

U-M history professor Tiya Miles, an award-winning MacArthur Fellow, reads from and discusses her new novel about slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are[...]

U-M English professor Khaled Mattawa reads from and discusses his new book about the Palestinian poet and writer Mahmoud Darwish.

Reading by Eric Torgerson, a retired CMU English professor who has published 6 poetry collections. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.

Reading by Glenn Sheldon, a University of Toledo humanities professor whose poetry collections include The Bird Scarer and Angel of Anarchy. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.

Local cartoonist Dave Coverly, creator of the nationally syndicated cartoon Speed Bump, discusses his new collection of dog cartoons. Signing. Free, but pet food donations for the Humane Society are welcome..

Details to be announced.  

Reading by this renowned Japan-born British novelist who wrote The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, both of which were adapted into highly acclaimed films.

Each term, Semester in Detroit and the U-M Detroit Center partner to organize community classroom events that are free and open to the public.  Detroit community members join together with U-M students, faculty and staff[...]

Panel discussion with U-M Residential College literature professor and Secret Spaces of Childhood author Elizabeth Goodenough, Michigan Folk School co-founder Julia Gold, and Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor early childhood coordinator Maggie Crawford. Hosted[...]

This acclaimed short fiction writer reads from his work. A 5-time Pushcart winner, Burgin is praised for his lucid and dexterous style. “What Edgar Allan Poe did for the psychotic soul, Richard Burgin does for[...]

Civil rights activist Tom Hayden, author of the Port Huron Statement, discusses his new history of U.S.-Cuba relations. Signing. 

Readings by young poets battling for a spot at the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam finals on Apr. 2.  

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writer Lillian Li and poet Anders Villani.  

Author and illustrator Peter Brown has written and illustrated many books for children. His books have earned numerous honors, including a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for[...]

Barbara Gregorich offers a writing workshop style talk, “How to Think Like a Mystery Writer.”  Agatha’s will have copies of her book, Guide to Writing the Mystery Novel: Lots of Examples, Plus Dead Bodies.

Literati caps off its two-year-anniversdary day-long party, with poets Raymond McDaniel and Tarfia Faizullah, who will read at 7pm. 50% of all the day’s sales will be donated to 826michigan. Raymond McDaniel is the author[...]

This all-female a cappella ensemble performs a wide variety of popular songs, from love ballads to classic rock songs, to a new twist on a popular rap song. 8 p.m. (doors open at 7:30 p.m.),[...]

James Hannaham reads from his latest novel, Delicious Foods. Held captive by her employers-and by her own demons-on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story[...]

Author’s Forum Presents: Making Callaloo in Detroit: A Conversation with the RC’s Lolita Hernandez and Laura Thomas

Brent Armendinger is the author of The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), as well as two chapbooks, Undetectable (New Michigan Press, 2009) andArchipelago (Noemi Press, 2009). His work has also appeared in many journals, including Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Denver[...]

107.1-FM morning host Martin Bandyke hosts a panel discussion on this nationally recognized exhibit featuring more than 500 works by over 250 artists that opens at the Duderstadt Gallery on March 25. With Prisoner Creative[...]